Narrowing down the timeline... it doesn't do this in Snow Leopard, as far as I can tell.

Not working on Snow Leopard here as well.

alias cdf 'cd "`finder-window-dir`"'

tell application "Finder"
	try
		POSIX path of (target of window 1 as alias)
	on error
		POSIX path of (path to desktop folder as alias)
	end try
end tell

I think the "tag" for this needs to change from "unix" to "10.8", as it's certainly not working for me in either 10.7 or 10.8, but does work in 10.8

In fact, Terminal has help on this specific topic, even though the default bash won't do this auto-cd.

In Terminal's help menu search, start typing "saving time" and you'll see the Apple documentation on this feature in SL.

For 10.7, and number of earlier versions, dragging an icon to terminal pasted in the path. So I always typed cd and a space before the drag. Very handy. Command drag had the same behavior in those versions as plain drag. I used bash.

Agreed !

I am in SNL currently and this result occurs when dragging anything to the Terminal. I also type cd + space before hand and it will change me to the filepath pointed to.

So I suppose I'm not understanding the 10.8 function.

When you all do this is it actually opening the Folder Location on the Desktop as opposed to moving you to the directory inside of Terminal ?

And IF SO - why take the time and effort to open Terminal - drag a folder to the Terminal only to open the Folder ? Why not simply double-click the Folder icon or select it and hit Command+O on the keyboard ?

Seems like many of these types of hints are counter-productive and take extra effort - tossed into that category of "we do it because we can" rather than something actually useful.

1. Cancel what's currently on the command line and re-display the prompt (on the next line, etc.)
2. Enter 'cd' and a space and then the path to the directory and then a semi-colon.
3. Finally execute the above 'cd' command for you.

No need for you to manually type the 'cd ' and then drag the icon in and then hit enter if all you want to do is cd to that directory; Terminal.app does all that for you if you hold down the command key.

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Dragging an icon to get the path in terminal goes all the way back to NeXTStep/Openstep. The cmd-drag thing is apparently new.

This doesn't work on my 10.7.4 system. So I'm guessing it's a 10.8 "feature"...
g=

Thanks for the helpful info,
Can something like this be done for Final Cut Pro X?

Very cool! I’ve been using drag & drop for a while to easily get a path. Being able to cd into a directory without having to type anything is a nice addition to that!

You can also just drag any folder or bundle right onto the Terminal icon in your Dock to open a new window at that location.

Nice hint. I'll use it now and then.

Option-Drag puts the correctly escaped path of the dragged item(s) into the Terminal.

To get to the open Finder window I normally run the following script via hotkey from FastScripts with the Terminal as the active app. It will open a new tab if the current one is busy.

-ccs

try
  
  tell application "Finder"
    if (count of windows) > 0 then
      set winTarget to target of front window as alias
    else
      set winTarget to path to desktop
    end if
  end tell
  
  set winTarget to quoted form of (POSIX path of winTarget)
  
  tell application "Terminal"
    if (busy of front window) = true then
      do script "cd " & winTarget
    else if (busy of front window) = false then
      tell front window
        do script "cd " & winTarget in selected tab
      end tell
    end if
  end tell
  
on error eMsg number eNum
  tell me to display dialog eMsg & return & return & eNum
end try